I posted this once and it did not appear. Here goes again. What do you in Russia feel about the term Rusyn? Do you consider them part of the greater Russian nation? In America a large number of Rusyns arrived during the eighteen hundreds. They were uniates or eastern rite catholics and disputes with the Roman Catholic church led to large numbers defecting to the Russian Orthodox church. Even now descendents of the Rusyns and Ukrainians are the Orthodox Church in America or OCA's largest membership. In later years more Rusyns left the Catholic church to found the Carpatho Russian Orthodox church. And many Rusyns in America are members of the Byzantine Catholic church which is in communion with Rome. There are eastern rite Catholics who founded the Hungarian Greek Catholic church who are the descendants of Magyarized Hungarians. The term Rusyn has confused people who are not familiar with the term confusing it with Russian proper. Famous American Rusyns include Sandra Dee whose family were Lembkians and Andy Warhol whose family came from what is officially Slovakia.